Ah, yes, memories of polyester,platform shoes, and wide plaid ties come flooding back.....ah,,, good times

You are so cute, Shots. Even in bell bottoms, you looked good.

Kenny was really pleased with how the interview went, Shatzi...didn't get offered the job on the spot, but we didn't expect that. He said the rapport between him & the interviewers was good, and they're looking for someone to work on projects on the AS-400 (?) (I think) which he is expert on. So, it seems to have gone well. We'll see what happens. Thanks for asking...your interest is really, really appreciated, plus the ejumacation you've given me about project management, etc. Am sending VERY positive vibes your DH's way. I wish they didn't have to struggle so much to get a little appreciation, yanno?

Glad you went walking, Cowp. They say that's really the best exercise you can get. I wish my leg didn't act up when I try. But, we picked up my Trimrider exercise bike-thingamajig this morning, and I LOVE it!!! It really gives me some good stretching and stuff without having to put any weight on my pinched nerve leg so it's going to work well for me I think.

That broccoli-head smilie is waaaay kewl.....that green afro is to die for!

TTFN,

Ella

oooh Ellabell, sounds promising fer DH!!! Sending mucho vibes!!! his way... trimrider...sounds sooooo infomercialish! What is it!!! Does it come with a back rest on the seat??? I hate --have always hated bike riding... I can only do the stationary bikes in the gym that have the seats with the backs...other wise fagaddaboutit...


Ps, Cowpernicus, I thought of Be Quiet first and Then I thought of Bouquet... as in a aromatic array of florals...........sweet! So, do tell, what are the top responses to B...Quet?

I was HOT in my elephant Bells, Wedge or platform heels, and middriff.. Hair a flowin...Straight as a pin, parted MarshaBrady or Laurie Partridge style.. take yer pick. A course, I was also prone to construction boots or earth shoes... (WHAT WAS I THINNNNNIN! - I am only 5 foot ! I should developed corns, plantar warts and back probs fer the sake of BeeeUty!!!) I am now HOT in my Mom jeans, clogs and any shirt without a stain... My hair still a warm chestnut brown with grey highlights, I pluck these from my chin.


My chicken bones are 1) are being Xray to death as a possible terrorism attack item from Canada, 2) Being enjoyed by a Canadian or American Postal worker. 3) Being regifted by someone in the canadian - or american postal system 4) has been sent to Merica by way of Beijing... sigh....

Shotsy, you are accurate. Girlies are 'sposed to say bouquet and boys are 'sposed to say banquet. No one should say briquet.

I am bored.

Okay, I still don't know how to insert quotes, but I can copy & paste with the best of 'em!!!

Shatzi: "I was HOT in my elephant Bells, Wedge or platform heels, and middriff.. Hair a flowin...Straight as a pin, parted MarshaBrady or Laurie Partridge style.. take yer pick. A course, I was also prone to construction boots or earth shoes... (WHAT WAS I THINNNNNIN! - I am only 5 foot ! I should developed corns, plantar warts and back probs fer the sake of BeeeUty!!!) I am now HOT in my Mom jeans, clogs and any shirt without a stain... My hair still a warm chestnut brown with grey highlights, I pluck these from my chin."

Yessssssss!!!! Oh Lawdie, hunny, I'm thinkin' we were/are close to being in the same generation!!!! My super bell bottom jeans...and, Oh you shoulda seen my VERY fitted little edwardian style jacket that I MADE, using a patchwork of VELVET prints and plains...had the long (to my butt) straight hair parted in the middle, the platforms, the shades.....and skinny, skinny, skinny....oh MY!!!! (Did the boots & earth shoes, too!) Long skirts made of India cloth (and bedspreads, curtains and wall hangings made of India cloth, too!!!!) And now? Oh yeah, oh yeah. The baggy (but not belled) jeans (remember when we wore the jeans tight at the top, and those big, wide legs? Now they're wide at the top and the legs are straight). My (natural)hair is mud brown - nothing warm or chestnut about it. I was getting some grey, but not enough to be pretty or to look frosted. It was just blah. So I frosted it. It's got heavy silvery highlights now....almost like Kenny. I'm going to plead the fifth on my chin...suffice it to say that I recently went to WalMart and bought myself a big, extra-bright camping flashlight so that when I'm alone in my bathroom, I can shine it under my chin to show up anything I may have missed with the tweezer.
The trimrider thingamajig really isn;t a stationary bicycle. You don't pedal it, although it does have pedals. What you do, is you sit on the seat, grasp the (handle)bar, push against the pedals and pull the handlebars towards you. The seat lifts up, and your legs straighten out, and there's a lot of tension on your upper arms (YAY), your abs, your legs, your back....DH says it's a good, low-impact way to stretch all the long muscles in your bod. You couldn't do it, say for 30 minutes straight or anything like that. Today I did 30 reps with it twice, and I can feel it in my arms and legs. I guess I'll be able to work my way up to doing more reps at a time, but I'm taking it slow becuz I'm an old codger.
This eating lifestyle change is, I think, a good thing for moi. I didn't think I'd actually lost anything this past week - felt a little bloaty, even. But when I got on the scale this morning, I'd lost two pounds, which is pretty fine, methinks. AND I'm getting more than enough to eat, don't feel like I'm on a *temporary* diet at all....I'd REALLY like to get myself in better shape. My sis was up visiting from Nawth Cahlina last September and we took some pictures together. Sis is 11 years older than me, but only a little more than half my size. She's about 5'1, and doesn't probably weigh much more than 100 pounds soaking wet. I looked like the Pillsbury Dough-girl next to her in those pictures! HATED looking at them. She didn't get around to sending them up to me until three weeks ago, or I probably would've made my *lifestyle change* a couple of months back.
I'm a little bored, too, Cowp. DH is reading. I probably will be soon. At least until my eyes start to close and it feels like bedtime. The excitement is almost more than I can tolerate.

Take good care, all...

Ella

Ah yes Ella, I'm glad some of "our styles" are comin back. I can't stand them low ridin butt crackin jeans...
Years ago I took classes in AS400, RPG,and Java...DEAR GAWD KILL ME!!!! It takes a special brand of people to be programmers. When I got to Java, we had to write a tic tac toe programming... THe Pain!!! the most fun I had was selecting my colors for the board and X and Os ... Needless to say, I've forgotten it all...

Typical Sunday Morn here in Schatziville. DH watchin Meet the Press, Sunday with George S.... Mutterin at the TV , yes all is good in my world. Takin the furkids out fer their walk... then back to the !

I will be a mik for you, darling.

We don't get palms because we paid tuition and I volunteer at bingo night and that's that. When the kids are grown, we will chuck this whole thing. The palms are nice, though.

Florida is sinking because all of Atlanta is here for spring break. There are snooty ones buying 5 kinds of cheese and red neck ones buying Deviled Ham spread. They all buy beer.

What is a MIK friend....? Yer Palms look lovely with Mother Mary Bagazoid... I am a heathen, say a rosary for me. I will go have my palm read.
My home is a crack house! I've only been able to give it a lick n a promise for the last month and the dust bunnies are sneakily forming ranks under the couch.... DH and I went out and got a new vacuum yesterday...I've been telling him.." i'm gonna need a new vacuum soon... "The Beast" (that's what I call this dirt devil model we have, its heavy as a and cumbersome) is on it's last legs" well, Dh pulled it out to vacuum his car and he was This piece is cracked off, this part duct taped, attachments missing...heheeeeee. He said I had no idea it was this bad!!! (well, a course not, he never vacuums ) Ah, well, we had it for 7 years so it served us well... "The Beast" has been replaced with "the animal" the Dyson Animal that is... Pricey but all the reviews on epinions and at work say its the best.... We shall see.... I plan to vacuum an area with the beast and revac with the animal.... Yes, my life is That boring lately!

Back from the Docs... CRAP crapedycrapcrap! My ear surgery healed up nicely , but both ears "look" sore and inflammed... so the hoses stay in ... I'm suppose to take sudafed stuff to keep the allergies that spring brings at bay and hopefully help me ears... My hearing is still muffled... DH says I'm beginnin to get on his noives...WHAT?WHAT?what?huh? Turn up the TV? What!!!
I'm beginning to sound like the AFLAC duck to him.

I wish to start a new thread: all cows in favor, say moo.

Oh, so did I -- when I was in my teens and early twenties, I used to loudly claim I'd never get married or have kids. Wasn't more than a year or 2 later that I'd changed my mind. Can't say I didn't feel a little foolish, but that's life.
Absolutely. I have several friends who have chosen to remain childless -- and I look at every single one of them and think what good parents they would be, but hey, not my call, eh? For most of them the reason has been not wanting to duplicate the family problems they grew up with, it seems. Of course that never stopped me -- but I do admire their self-knowledge.

Good Peachie! How's the weather down there, all springy and blooming? We had a dusting a snow today Is this how your birthday went --> ?

What does that say about dh's "barbeque-et"?

I realize it shows how simple I am, but I just love it when they put in new smilies!! Bunnies!! How can you not love bunnies!!!

You crazy hippies....I always wanted to dress like that, but I seem to have just missed it, or was too timid to really get into it. I was more the preppy looking girl. But I did have several pairs of bell-bottomed, hip-hugger jeans, and miniskirts and minidresses. And a skinny hot bod and long blonde hair to go with them. Ah, them was the dayz. My favorite outfit was a plaid mini-kilt, Villager shirt with pointy collar, covered buttons and french cuffs, and a navy blue pea jacket that was just barely longer than the skirt. So it looked like you weren't wearing anything under the jacket. That was about as bad as I ever got... When I got to college, I discovered that my wardrobe was interpreted as snooty and rich (ha, there's a joke!), so I eventually retooled to the sloppy jeans & t-shirts look everyone else at Tufts wore. (and never changed much for 30 years, except to go more plaid flannel -- yay me).

Kiwi

Yes, indeed, what are we heathens missing?
I'd love to hear how you like it. I'm getting a little p-o'ed at my hoover wind tunnel lately, pieces keeping breaking and I don't think it's old enough to be falling apart -- like only about 3 or 4 years. Talk about planned obsolescence..
Sorry to hear that -- hope it all heals up soon.
Moo
Do I detect a Lushquote?
Pretty as a picture. In a picture. Or something. You have a lovely artistic sense.
My dear, it is simplicity itself. There are 3 ways to quote. The easiest is to click the "quote" button on the lower right corner of the message you want to quote. To quote several messages in one, you have to click the multiquote button (it's the one that looks like the little picture I put below) which turns orange, then click one of the quote buttons. The reply message then has all the messages quoted in it. The 3rd way is to Select some text and then click the quote tool on the toolbar above your reply box -- but if you happen to have your options set as simple text box (that's in your user control panel options), you won't see that toolbar. Oh yeah, there's a 4th way: type [ quote ], insert the text, then type [/ quote ] (except leave out the spaces). Viola! as the loosers say, there you have it.

We had a GREAT weekend!! Worcester was fine and dandy -- apparently there was nothing going on at the Centrum, so parking was a snap. DD and BF had already parked in a garage near the Hall, so we joined them; only cost us $6 for about 6 hours. The restaurant was very nice -- totally yummy. Honestly I could have made a meal out of their homemade bread by itself, it was so good. The concert was rather a marathon -- but beautiful, soaring music. And the hall was like nothing I've ever seen before, gorgeous and the acoustics were amazing! Since we were there quite early, we stopped in the lobby before dinner and happened on the building administrator, who was more than happy to tell us a few things about the building and DH asked him if we could have the poster for the concert (men ). He said, come by afterward and he'd take one down for us. And he did, too.

Before the concert was a lecture by the chorale director, about the history of Elijah and notes on the piece itself, very interesting. This guy, who is the choral professor at Tufts, is just a kid himself, but what a conductor! I don't how one person manages to conduct a whole orchestra plus about 200 singers all at once! It was pretty amazing. The concert was about 3 hours long, but it actually was exhilariting, Schatzi. Go figure!

Sunday we got DD to take us around campus (we had DH's mom and sister with us; they'd never been there before), drove her to a dance class in Cambridge, then back at school, watched a tech rehearsal for her Irish dance club performance, then she had to work, so we left. DH's mom and sister were the easiest people to travel with, it was really great. And they enjoyed every minute of the weekend, it seemed. The only annoying parts of the trip were when DH started getting in his "tell me over and over again every single turn I need to make" which is inevitably coupled with his absolute refusal to follow my directions. We managed not to scream at each other, considering the company, which I suppose is a good thing. But it just makes me want to do all the driving, which he doesn't like at all. I have to do my own navigation when I am the one driving, what is that all about?

Oh well, I'm hungry. When am I going to learn to eat before I get on the computer?

Kiwi

Ah finally! An event that lived up to its billing eh Kiwi!
Soaring! Ehhilarating! Amazing Acoustics! And not a porn movie in the mix (Not that I have ever seen one! --ok, truth or dare: I saw 1/2 of one... ) I crack myself up...sorry to any prudish cow) ..Sounds like a Fabu weekend Kiwi! Good fer you and DH ....
So you still like Rosie? That contraption still intrigues me..

Funny you should ask -- I was just upstairs vacuuming while she was downstairs vacuuming. Yeah, we are still buds. She does require an awful lot of picky maintenance -- if I didn't have 3 pets and long hair myself, that would be less of an issue, but I have to take the 2 rollers out of the bottom every time or 2 that I empty the dirt bin. One of the rollers is a brush and collects mucho hair; the other is rubber and gets some hair wrapped around it too. But I would rather clean that out than haul the big vac around and deal with its cord. I swear I have to empty it as often as the little dirt cup on Rosie. With all the stupid joint problemos I've been having, avoiding the big vacuum is worthwhile too.

I'm taking a break from attempting to clean my bed -- I vacuumed the top of the mattress, but decided the pain was not worth the results and am going to get DH to do the rest of the lugging so I can clean the box spring. I hope I get back to it before I need to climb into it...

Kiwi